Passport Authentication
Forms authentication is cool, but it has one potential failing. It requires users to create and maintain a set of credentials for every Web site that they visit. Wouldn't it be nice to have just one username and password that you could use at any site? That is the idea behind Microsoft Passport.
The first step to using Microsoft Passport is to request a Site ID. The Site ID identifies your site as a valid Passport partner and is used as a key by Passport to identify settings related to your site. When you have acquired a Site ID, you can configure your site to use Passport. Change the mode attribute of <authentication> element to Passport. A second optional element <passport> enables you to specify the location of the ...
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